This space-planning seat sits where fixture logic, visual standards, and sales density collide. The role demands commercial scrutiny on every layout; store-level execution determines whether the plan survives intact.
Debt pressure meets selling-floor productivity
Financial reporting and market-risk data dictate the pressure of this role. Perry Ellis International runs a $900 million 2025 revenue footprint, but that scale sits on debt financing from Fortress and a May 2025 Macroaxis bankruptcy assessment above 80%. Operating consequences include chronic overwork, role absorption, and a revolving-door culture. Leadership protects cash and debt service by keeping corporate headcount lean, pushing more output through fewer planners, and tying space planning directly to revenue efficiency as the business shifts away from wholesale economics toward direct-to-consumer categories.
Fixture maps, floor sets, and revenue density control
This role executes the translation of merchant priorities and visual direction into executable store layouts that protect selling capacity and fixture productivity. The planner owns planogram development, space allocation, and floor-set documentation while absorbing late changes from merchandising and operations. Accountability lands on output quality and commercial logic, even when final execution and store compliance sit with other teams.
Planogram output under cross-functional revision pressure
- Space Allocation: Build and update store layouts, fixture plans, and category space assignments that enforce visual presentation and sales-per-square-foot targets.
- Floor-Set Documentation: Deliver floor-set packets, adjacency maps, and execution guides that stores and field partners deploy without ambiguity.
- Revision Control: Triage merchant, leadership, and operational changes; document version updates; and contain layout drift before final sign-off.
- Performance Audit: Review store feedback and category productivity data to refine future plans and escalate recurring execution failures.
CAD fluency, retail math, and constraint tolerance
- Experience Depth: 24 months of space planning, store planning, or visual merchandising experience inside an apparel or specialty retail environment.
- Technical Tools: Command of planogram or CAD-based layout tools plus Excel-level comfort with assortment counts and fixture capacity.
- Execution Temperament: Deliver accurate layout work on compressed timelines while absorbing cross-functional revisions without losing documentation control.
Miami compensation versus corporate retail load
TWS Algorithmic Market Estimate. For a Space Planner in Miami, this range sits below the market median when accounting for commute, housing, and on-site costs.
- Base Salary Range: $55,000 – $70,000 USD / Year
- Skill Build: The role provides direct exposure to category allocation and fixture productivity that sharpens commercial planning judgment.
- Career Signal: This position converts into Senior Space Planner or Store Planning Manager roles where revenue logic and layout execution both matter.
Store support rules and candidate fit
- The Physical Presence Directive
- Location: Miami, FL. Status: On-site. This role is tied to the corporate office; remote flexibility is not part of the operating model.
- Relocation Posture
- Relocation support is not funded. A debt-conscious operator protecting cash does not fund candidate moves for this level of role.
- The Candidate This Role Is Built For
- This role targets a candidate in a stabilization phase who wants hard commercial-planning credibility and can tolerate limited authority and direct revenue pressure; it is a poor fit for anyone who needs creative control.
Green Flags
- Advantage: Commercial Planning Credential: Eighteen months here provides a resume-ready signal that the candidate can build space plans under debt pressure and lean staffing while protecting revenue density.
- Advantage: Cross-Functional Exposure: The role puts planning work in direct contact with merchandising and operations stakeholders, strengthening execution credibility beyond pure design.
Red Flags
- Warning Sign: Accountability Without Control: The planner is judged on sales productivity even when final execution and store compliance sit with other teams.
- Warning Sign: Lean-Team Revision Load: In a cash-protective model, eliminated work is absorbed, expanding category coverage and compressing turnaround times for the remaining team.
